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  <name><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.

Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. She has written a little less than 50 novels, including the recent Alchemy in 2002. Among her children's books, A Lion in the Meadow and The Seven Chinese Brothers and The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate are considered national classics. Her novels have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Catalan and Afrikaans. In addition, some stories have been translated into Russian, Chinese and Icelandic.

For her contributions to children's literature she has been made a member of the Order of New Zealand. The Margaret Mahy Medal Award was established by the New Zealand Children's Book Foundation in 1991 to provide recognition of excellence in children's literature, publishing and literacy in New Zealand. In 2006 she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award (known as the Little Nobel Prize) in recognition of a &quot;lasting contribution to children's literature&quot;.

Margaret Mahy currently resides on Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Whakatane</hometown>  <born_at>03/21/1936</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Changeover: A Supernatural Romance]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.25</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>204</ratings_count>
  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Seven Chinese Brothers (Blue Ribbon Book)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.97</average_rating>
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  <published>1990</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Tricksters]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.16</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>68</ratings_count>
  <published>1986</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.47</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>68</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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        <book id="6056282">
  <title><![CDATA[Bubble Trouble]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Polly Dunbar]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>52</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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        <book id="489994">
  <title><![CDATA[Maddigan's Fantasia]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.47</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>59</ratings_count>
  <published>1937</published>  
  
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        <book id="47890">
  <title><![CDATA[The Haunting (Puffin Books)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>53</ratings_count>
  <published>1982</published>  
  
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        <book id="47889">
  <title><![CDATA[Catalogue of the Universe]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.65</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>54</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Great White Man-Eating Shark: A Cautionary Tale]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.14</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>29</ratings_count>
  <published>1989</published>  
  
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        <book id="614678">
  <title><![CDATA[Down the Back of the Chair]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Mahy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>24</ratings_count>
  <published>2006</published>  
  
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